Teaching Languages Online

Name: Teaching Languages Online
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How to teach effectively, efficiently and confidently online.

Created byDavid Jennings

Last updated 4/2024

English

What you'll learn

How to teach languages effectively online. Build your confidence, effectiveness, efficiency and professionalism as an online teacher of languages.
What are the essential pieces of software and hardware we need, how to improve sound and lighting, and use tools, tabs, bookmarks, shortcuts and more.
How to present materials, give feedback and use electronic course materials, how to interact effectively with learners online with breakout rooms.
How to replicate kinaesthetic activities and add multimedia using Jamboard and Padlet, and how to spice up your lesson with games in MSWord, Jamboard & Quizlet.
The pros and cons of virtual backgrounds and what makes a good electronic course book, and how to use them effectively.

Course content

7 sections • 37 lectures • 3h 45m total length

Introduction0:47

The Essentials9:44
Essential pieces of hardware, software, and other peripherals and prerequisites - computer, Internet, meeting software with audio through and breakout rooms, a camera, adequate lighting, short cut keys, sound and camera settings and a willingness to learn and experiment.
Assignment 1 - the Essentials
Organisation and IT9:09
Keeping an organised file/folder system, using short cuts and alias to access them quickly, efficient preparation, what not to forget, having a clean desktop, preparing browser tabs, preparing for lessons in digital course books with bookmarks, and record keeping.
Organisation and IT
IT Tools and Utilities11:48
Useful tools and utilities to have - ad blockers, file/media converters and players, pdf viewer/maker - with advice on using tools within a pdf viewer to highlight text, and using software IPA and foreign language text writers.
IT Tools and Utilities
Cameras and Lighting6:15
How to use your camera effectively, simulate real eye contact, and using ring lights for better facial lighting.
Cameras and lighting
Virtual Backgrounds17:36
How to use virtual backgrounds, and their advantages and disadvantages. Effects and filters , the software Manycam and virtual backgrounds in Teams, Zoom and Google Meet.
Virtual Backgrounds
Tabs to have ready7:09
What types of tabs should we have ready in our browser - what websites should be bookmarked - news, resources, portals for our teaching and electronic course books, videos, games, dictionaries, IPA and language script writer and research tools like the Ngram viewer.
Organising your Browser with Tab Groups.4:04
How to make your browser lesson-ready with tab groups.
Browser Tab Groups 2 - Using Multiple Groups2:53
Setting up bookmarks in Chrome and tabs in a PDF viewer6:15
How to use tabs effectively in Chrome and PDF readers, setting up tabs for a lesson ordered from left to right, and how to create bookmarks in Chrome and use the bookmark manager. These make for a more organised lesson with less time wasted searching for materials.
Browser Tabs Asssignment
Dealing with PDF Gapfills1:44
Tools PDF readers offer that can be used to add answers to PDF gap fill worksheets.
Dealing with PDFs
Props and Boards2:08

Interaction11:09
Maximising learner speaking time with breakout rooms and how to set them up in Teams and Zoom. Also, creating more rapport with bigger smiles, gestures and tone of voice, encouraging a cameras on culture and the importance of giving our learners equal contact.
Interaction assignment
Giving Feedback6:11
How to add effective feedback using chats, IPA writers, a dedicated Word file as a whiteboard template, Word and PPT drawing functions and the Teams whiteboard.
Microsoft Word 'Whiteboard' template4:16
How to give effective written feedback using chats, IPA writers, for pronunciation, the dedicated MSWord whiteboard template, using MSWord drawing functions and online whiteboards such as in MSTeams.
The Word Whiteboard
Using the Microsoft Teams Whiteboard6:53
Run-through of how to use the MSTeams whiteboard to make a timeline for the present perfect simple.
Giving Feedback

Using Coursebooks3:59
Discussing the pros and cons of scanning materials and dealing with PDFs and the limited tools for highlighting materials, placing scans or screen shots into Word or PPT in order to lead learners through materials step be step, and then the option of buying electronic course books, where all texts, audio and video are available in the one place.
Presenting materials effectively in online teaching using Word and PPT.13:06
How to effectively present materials in online teaching 2 - e-course books.1:18
What to look for in electronic course books and portals.4:13
Electronic Course Book Run-through - Business Result12:52
A run-through of a popular electronic course book in the Student Bookshelf - highlighting navigation, bookmarks, highlighting tools, audio, video and answers.
Bookmarks in Oxford Learners Bookshelf1:33
How to add and manage bookmarks in the Oxford Learner's Bookshelf to more efficiently jump between pages in an electronic course book.
Managing materials in the Cornelsen Teaching Manager1:10
How some digital teaching resources allow you to supplement the course book with additional resources and to create a lesson by selecting certain pages from the book.
Klett Digital Teaching Assistant Run-through13:05
A run-through of another digital teaching assistant and course book from the publisher Klett.
Course books assignment
De-skewing and cleaning up PDFS3:47
How to de-skew a scanned document that is not level and to clean up the black marks on the side.

Introduction to padlet6:23
An introduction to using, adding media to and sharing padlets.
Introduction to Jamboard5:38
An introduction to setting up a jam in Jamboard, its features and how to share.
Matching Activities in MSTeams Whiteboard2:06
Setting up a matching activity in the MSTeams whiteboard.
Jumbled Texts in Microsoft Word4:13
Replicating jumbled texts in a kinaesthetic way in Microsoft Word.
Kinaesthetic Matching Activities in MSWord3:31
How to set up kinaesthetic matching activities using text boxes in MS Word.
Getting to know you with multimedia in padlet3:15
A getting to know you activity featuring different media types and different language structures in padlet.
Remaking and assigning different padlets for group work in breakout rooms16:02
How to set up and replicate a padlet for a mind mapping revision task for several groups.
Kinaesthetic learning apps assignment

Quizlet Live as vocabulary revision Game5:56
Using quizlet.live with learners online as a fun vocabulary revision race game.
Games in Kahoot5:03
Online quizzes and revision with Kahoot.
Pictionary in Jamboard and MSWord5:52
How to use Jamboard and MSWord for the popular game of pictionary.
Easy 'Hangman' in MSWord3:49
An easy way go setting up and running hangman in MSWord.
Interactive Games Assignment

Requirements

A little knowledge of teaching practice.
A little knowledge of computers.
A willingness to learn, reflect and experiment.

Description

Thanks for considering this course. My teaching has moved 100% online and over the last one and a half years, I’ve put a lot of thought into what makes effective online teaching.

This course will build your confidence, give you new ideas, and make you reevaluate your online teaching. All the ideas and techniques shown revolve around the principles of providing a better learning experience for the learner, and reducing our stress levels and time we need to prepare and follow-up classes.

Topics include:

The Essentials and IT

What are the essential pieces of software and hardware or peripherals we need, how can we improve sound and lighting, and how to make our teaching more efficient with tools, tabs, bookmarks, shortcuts, virtual backgrounds, aliases and an organised PC.

Interaction

How can we engage and interact with our learners and deal with the problem of poor eye-contact? When should cameras be on and when off?

Pedagogy

How can we best present materials and lessons online? How can we use electronic course books and portals to bets effect?

How can we give effective feedback and language correction? How can we best deal with course materials and scans/PDFs. What do we look for in an electronic course book and how can we get the most out of them?

How can we exploit the multimedia potential of the web and simulate the kinaesthetic activities we had in the real classroom using jamboard and Padlet?

How can we spice up your lesson with games in MSWord, Jamboard and Quizlet?

The principles apply to the teaching of all languages, and whether you use MSTeams, Zoom, GoogleMeet or another portal.

Who this course is for:

Language teachers or prospective language teachers.
Language teachers wanting to improve their confidence teaching online and get new ideas, or to become more efficient.
Whether teaching in Teams, Zoom, Google Meet or another platform, the principles given in the course apply. Jamboard and Padlet are throughly introduced, and I give you ways of using these tools and MSWord for replicating kinaesthetic learning.
The principles also apply whether you're teaching, English or any other language.

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Course content

Introduction1 lecture • 1min

The Essentials11 lectures • 1hr 19min

Pedagogy4 lectures • 28min

Course Books and Electronic Course Books9 lectures • 55min

Replicating Kinaesthetic Activities - Jaboard and Padlet7 lectures • 41min

Interactive Games for Online Teaching4 lectures • 21min

Final Words and Thanks1 lecture • 1min

Requirements

Description

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